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Street dreams and hip hop barbershops : global fantasy in urban Tanzania.
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ISBN: 9780253325945 0253325943 9780253220752 0253220750 Year: 2009 Publisher: Bloomington Indiana university press


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Real pigs : shifting values in the field of local pork
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ISBN: 9780822361381 0822361388 9780822361572 0822361574 9780822374237 0822374234 Year: 2016 Publisher: Durham : Duke University Press,

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In addition to being one of the United States' largest pork producers, North Carolina is home to a developing niche market of pasture-raised pork. In Real Pigs Brad Weiss traces the desire for "authentic" local foods in the Piedmont region of central North Carolina as he follows farmers, butchers, and chefs through the process of breeding, raising, butchering, selling, and preparing pigs raised on pasture for consumption. Drawing on his experience working on Piedmont pig farms and at farmers’ markets, Weiss explores the history, values, social relations, and practices that drive the pasture-raised pork market. He shows how pigs in the Piedmont become imbued with notions of authenticity, illuminating the ways the region's residents understand local notions of place and culture. Full of anecdotes and interviews with the market's primary figures, Real Pigs reminds us that what we eat and why have implications that resonate throughout the wider social, cultural, and historical world.


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The making and unmaking of the Haya lived world : consumption, commoditization, and everyday practice
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ISBN: 0822398494 Year: 1996 Publisher: Durham : Duke University Press,

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At the center of this subtle ethnographic account of the Haya communities of Northwest Tanzania is the idea of a lived world as both the product and the producer of everyday practices. Drawing on his experience living with the Haya, Brad Weiss explores Haya ways of constructing and inhabiting their community, and examines the forces that shape and transform these practices over time. In particular, he shows how the Haya, a group at the fringe of the global economy, have responded to the processes and material aspects of money, markets, and commodities as they make and remake their place in a changing world.

Producing African futures : ritual and reproduction in a neoliberal age
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ISBN: 9004138609 9789004138605 9789047413790 9047413792 Year: 2004 Volume: 26

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The cumulative implications for Africans of the neoliberal processes (market speculation, shifts in sites of production, new modes of consumption, redefinition of the relation between states and their citizenry) cannot be reduced to single parameters. Three themes are central: the neoliberal production of personhood, the crises of youth and the moral panic in which so many of the wider reforms are registered in experience. With contributions on marriage payments, Muslim saints, popular theatre, homosexuality, ritual haunts, domestic reproduction, masculine fantasy, poetic justice, spirit possession and corruption.

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